Raped The Woman

MEDIA, Pa. -- A police officer was charged Thursday with raping a woman twice, then returning to her house and raping her again after she called 911 for help. Christopher Scaggs, 27, was freed on $25,000 bail and placed on administrative leave. Scaggs responded to a call at a Glenolden, Pa., home early Monday, authorities said. There, prosecutors said, Scaggs raped the woman twice and then left. The woman later called 911, but hung up before speaking to anyone. Dispatchers traced the call and ordered a patrol car sent.

MEDIA, Pa. -- A police officer was charged Thursday with raping a woman twice, then returning to her house and raping her again after she called 911 for help. Christopher Scaggs, 27, was freed on $25,000 bail and placed on administrative leave. Scaggs responded to a call at a Glenolden, Pa., home early Monday, authorities said. There, prosecutors said, Scaggs raped the woman twice and then left. The woman later called 911, but hung up before speaking to anyone. Dispatchers traced the call and ordered a patrol car sent.

Orlando police were investigating a couple's report that a group of men shot at them, then raped the woman in southwest Orlando on Thursday night, Lt. Mike Mankins said. A 28-year-old man told police he and a woman followed a stranger from South Orange Blossom Trail to the 4400 block of Edgemoor Street off Ivey Lane about 9 p.m., Mankins said. The couple told police they had hoped to buy drugs. Instead, the couple said a group of men surrounded their car, fired several shots and raped the woman, Mankins said.

Joseph A. Rolle Jr. is guilty of rape but not murder, jurors decided Thursday.Rolle, 30, one of the first people in the nation to be fingered by a crime lab computer that holds genetic DNA samples of convicted felons, was charged in the 1991 rape, torture and slaying of an unidentified woman.''We are pleased that he was found not guilty of first-degree murder, but we're a little confused about the verdict of one count of the sexual battery,'' said Assistant Public Defender Mark Nacke.Jurors, who deliberated all day Thursday, said there was not enough proof Rolle was the killer who beat the woman called Jane Doe, poked her with sticks, strangled her and left her posed in a sexually suggestive position.

A Winter Garden man charged with raping an 18-year-old mentally handicapped woman was being held without bond in the Orange County Jail on Monday. Winter Garden police charged Andrew Lee Wilson, 19, of 131 E. Smith St., with sexual battery. Police said Wilson raped the woman, whose mental capacities are on the level of a 4-year-old, at her home shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday.

A teen-ager sleeping over at a friend's house was arrested Sunday on a charge of raping his friend's mother.Wayne Franz, 15, was arrested after admitting he raped the woman early Saturday in her bedroom, St. Cloud police said.The woman told police she awoke about 3 a.m. when the teen-ager pinned her to her bed and raped her.Franz was booked into the Osceola County Jail on a sexual battery charge and then transferred to a juvenile detention center in Orlando.

A 21-year-old woman who was about to be raped told her attacker that she had the AIDS virus so the man put on a condom before he assaulted her, police said. The attack occurred as the woman was walking to a store, police said. The man pulled a gun, demanded money and then forced the woman to undress in a parking lot. ''When it became evident that the man was going to rape her, the woman told him she had AIDS,'' said Milwaukee police inspector Vincent Partipilo. The attacker put on a condom and raped the woman.

A 30-year-old Orlando woman asleep in bed with her 2-year-old daughter was forced into another room and raped early Sunday by a knife-wielding attacker, Orlando police said.The victim, who lives on West Amelia Street, told investigators the suspect grabbed her as she slept, around 2 a.m., and put a knife to her throat. The 2-year-old cried, and the man took the woman to another room.According to the report, the suspect put the knife on a mattress as he raped the woman, and when she reached for it, they fought.

An Orange County woman said she was raped repeatedly after being kidnapped by two men and held for more than 12 hours Tuesday.The woman was found about 11:30 p.m. in southern Orange County, more than 20 miles from where she was abducted from the Winn-Dixie supermarket parking lot at 4058 13th St., said St. Cloud Police Officer Peggy Greer on Wednesday.The two men were hiding on the floor of the rear seat of the woman's car when she got into it, and they abducted her at knifepoint, she told police.

To hear a Eustis woman tell it, her encounter with Kenneth Gilliard and Johnathan Scott was a terrifying, nightmarish event during which each man raped her as the other held her down.The defendants, however, insist the sexual encounter with their pregnant acquaintance was consensual and that they were stunned when she accused them of rape.Scott, 21, of Eustis and Gilliard, 33, of Mount Dora each face charges of burglary, aggravated battery, attempted sexual battery, and counts of sexual battery.

A 30-year-old Orlando woman asleep in bed with her 2-year-old daughter was forced into another room and raped early Sunday by a knife-wielding attacker, Orlando police said.The victim, who lives on West Amelia Street, told investigators the suspect grabbed her as she slept, around 2 a.m., and put a knife to her throat. The 2-year-old cried, and the man took the woman to another room.According to the report, the suspect put the knife on a mattress as he raped the woman, and when she reached for it, they fought.

An Orange County woman said she was raped repeatedly after being kidnapped by two men and held for more than 12 hours Tuesday.The woman was found about 11:30 p.m. in southern Orange County, more than 20 miles from where she was abducted from the Winn-Dixie supermarket parking lot at 4058 13th St., said St. Cloud Police Officer Peggy Greer on Wednesday.The two men were hiding on the floor of the rear seat of the woman's car when she got into it, and they abducted her at knifepoint, she told police.

A teen-ager sleeping over at a friend's house was arrested Sunday on a charge of raping his friend's mother.Wayne Franz, 15, was arrested after admitting he raped the woman early Saturday in her bedroom, St. Cloud police said.The woman told police she awoke about 3 a.m. when the teen-ager pinned her to her bed and raped her.Franz was booked into the Osceola County Jail on a sexual battery charge and then transferred to a juvenile detention center in Orlando.

To hear a Eustis woman tell it, her encounter with Kenneth Gilliard and Johnathan Scott was a terrifying, nightmarish event during which each man raped her as the other held her down.The defendants, however, insist the sexual encounter with their pregnant acquaintance was consensual and that they were stunned when she accused them of rape.Scott, 21, of Eustis and Gilliard, 33, of Mount Dora each face charges of burglary, aggravated battery, attempted sexual battery, and counts of sexual battery.

By Jill Jorden Spitz and Dave Weber of The Sentinel Staff, June 3, 1993

Fred Williams is guilty of holding a Lake County woman against her will last fall, but he isn't guilty of raping her, a jury decided Wednesday night.Williams, a 53-year-old handyman who has lived in various Lake County motels for the past eight years, was convicted of false imprisonment.However, he was acquitted of four counts of sexual battery and two counts of unnatural and lascivious acts.Although he admitted to hitting the woman during a fight over money, jurors decided against lowering the sexual battery charges to the less-serious offense of battery.

A 21-year-old woman who was about to be raped told her attacker that she had the AIDS virus so the man put on a condom before he assaulted her, police said. The attack occurred as the woman was walking to a store, police said. The man pulled a gun, demanded money and then forced the woman to undress in a parking lot. ''When it became evident that the man was going to rape her, the woman told him she had AIDS,'' said Milwaukee police inspector Vincent Partipilo. The attacker put on a condom and raped the woman.

By Terry O. Roen and Elaine Bennett of The Sentinel Staff, April 8, 1988

DNA samples have linked a man arrested in several Kissimmee rapes last fall to another assault in Longwood.Prosecutors have issued a request to return Robert Power, 27, to Seminole County for formal arrest on charges of sexual battery, robbery, burglary and theft. He is expected to appear in court next week.Longwood police Lt. Jack Bisland said that while physical evidence provided the basis for the charges, the DNA test increases the chances of a conviction. DNA analysis can detect a pattern, similar to fingerprints, in everyone except identical twins, experts say. In rape cases, technicians compare the blood of a suspect with semen left by the crime.

A man convicted as an accomplice in the rape of a Pine Hills woman in 1989 collapsed Monday in Orange Circuit Court after he was sentenced to 27 years in prison followed by life on probation.William Charles Holloway, 19, broke down sobbing earlier in the sentencing hearing after the 31-year-old victim testified she no longer trusts people because of the attack, in which she was hogtied and suspended by her neck from a towel rack.According to trial testimony, Holloway and another man, Warren Franklin Hyson, broke into the woman's home shortly after midnight.

Tom Stricklin was Orange County's deputy sheriff of the month last October.Tuesday, a 27-year-old woman told a jury that during the same month, Stricklin raped her after stopping her car for having a broken taillight.''Who would believe that a police officer would do this to me?'' the Tampa woman told jurors in a quaking voice. ''I was in shock. When you are raped, you call a police officer for help, you know? Who do you call when a police officer rapes you?''Stricklin, 44, a deputy for 18 months when he was charged with sexual battery, has said he never raped the woman.

A man convicted as an accomplice in the rape of a Pine Hills woman in 1989 collapsed Monday in Orange Circuit Court after he was sentenced to 27 years in prison followed by life on probation.William Charles Holloway, 19, broke down sobbing earlier in the sentencing hearing after the 31-year-old victim testified she no longer trusts people because of the attack, in which she was hogtied and suspended by her neck from a towel rack.According to trial testimony, Holloway and another man, Warren Franklin Hyson, broke into the woman's home shortly after midnight.